Massive cash with adsense

Scam or real?

[techygeek]

When I searched the term "adsense" on google.com I saw some text ads. I clicked on them.
Those sites are promising to set up a system where one can make thousands of money with little effort.
They ask to buy an e-book for details.

Sounds too good to be true and it most likely is.

But, I would like to know what others have to say on this.

Thanks.

[Powdork]

What you will want to do is find the place where you are going to put adsense and in the same section (i.e. the same cell if you're using tables, the same div if layers) work these keywords into the content. I wouldn't change any current page or directory names but for any new ones use the keywords you want ads to show up for in the file and folder names. Typically, the ads will mirror your sites content when you put up new pages and then get more targetted toward the individual page's content over the following days.
We are talking nickels and dimes, but lots of them.

When you refer to your site in your profile, it causes it to disappear.;)

[larryhatch]

Thanks Powdork: BTW I had no idea just mentioning my profile would make the URL vanish. Who'd think of that?
- Larry

[europeforvisitors]

In contrast to David_uk's experience, I've found that having AdSense ads on inside pages is extremely profitable--far more so than just sticking them on the entry page, which represents a tiny percentage of my traffic. Think about it: More traffic = more impressions = more clicks. Not only that, but on some sites, certain inside pages will be for topics that attract much higher-bid ads than the home page does: e.g., pages about luxury cruises, 5-star hotels in Shelbyville, yacht rentals in the Elbonian Sea, etc. on a general-interest travel site.

Also, unless your site is quite small, I'd advise against selecting pages individually for AdSense ads, because the hassle of testing and revision will be out of proportion to the rewards earned. It's a lot quicker and easier to place the code in a shared top or side margin (via an include file, for example) so that you can change the code with minimal disruption. Example: When Google introduced "channels," many of us were able to replace our existing AdSense code with new channel-specific code almost instantly. There was no need for extensive manual changes or for search-and-replace routines that would have required manual checks of the affected pages.

Finally, you should be aware that not all topics lend themselves to AdSense. If most of your visitors are coming to grab map images for school reports, you'll get fewer clicks and commissions than you would if your visitors were coming to plan trips or to look for a source of printed maps. Still, it's easy enough to find out if AdSense is right for you: You can try the program, see if it works, and stick with it or pull the code from your pages at any time.

[larryhatch]

Thanks EFV: Good input!

All my pages are now static HTML, frequently updated, about 130 of them.
Can I do an 'include' function from straight HTML? That sounds good if feasible.

My regular visitors come looking for 'flying widgets'.
I map the sightings worldwide, and I do statistics.

My other visitors, lots of them, come looking for maps of this or that place online.
Some of them might want a source of paper maps unrelated to my widgets.
Some of them may be contemplating travel.
Even the flying-widget people may be looking for literature, a lot of them do.

I'm wondering how content sensitive and on-target the Google Adsense ads are over time.
Ads for sporting goods or florists would be goofy.

- Larry

[Powdork]

There is a preview tool on the adsense site. you just type in the url and it shows what type of ads will appear. Or you can just do a search on google and get an idea from the adwords that show, although not all those advertisers will have chosen content match.

[larryhatch]

Thanks again Powdork. I must be doing something wrong.

There are non-GG sites that pretend to test your pages, but those just came up with public service ads.

I found the official Google Adsense Test page, but got nowhere with that.
They want you to use IE but I use Firefox 1.0. I was only able to get partway into the 'test' using IE 5.5

The Regedit tool downloaded and I ran it, but that's about as far as I could get.
I followed directions, closed and reopened IE, called up my main page and right-clicked.
The Adsense test appeared in the drop-down, I clicked that.

A window appeared, but the test Adsense ads didn't show in the inner window, just "sample .. sample .. "

There's a link for "See URLs". I tried that, but the new window was blank, no URLs.

May I take it that Adsense considers my site unsuitable, or can't find proper matching ads?
I'm not really sure I got this to work properly at all. Not too encouraging. - Larry

[icedowl]

Larry, I just tried the preview tool at your site and there are at least 12 ads available for your home page. I didn't check any of the interior pages.

[Powdork]

why are northern nevada folk so helpful?;)

[larryhatch]

Hi Icedowl and Powdork. PD stickied me some examples offlist, both very helpful!
It turns out my site was down for an hour. ISP server trouble.

I have to study this some more. This is a hard decision for me to make.

Thanks all - Larry